Researchers have found geologic evidence that casts doubt on the prevailing theory of what triggered the glaciation of Antarctica.
This map shows the present-day...
Scientists at the Yale University School of Medicine have proposed an explanation for how Salmonella Typhi, the bacterium that causes typhoid fever, kills...
Biologist Dr Ruth Kiew of the Forest Research Institute Malaysia has described a beautiful new species of plant from the Peninsular Malaysia.
Ridleyandra...
Australian chemists have developed a potential new antibiotic that could help in the battle against antibiotic resistant bacteria, including the methicillin-resistant...
A broad range of evidence from linguistics, genetics, paleontology, and archaeology suggests that Neanderthals and Denisovans shared with us something...
According to new research reported in the Geophysical Research Letters, increased levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) over the past three decades have caused...
Researchers have proposed a radical solution to a cosmochemical mystery that has baffled scientists for over a century: how numerous small, glassy chondrules...
Dr Marco Malagodi from the Università degli Studi di Pavia in Italy and his colleagues have used innovative methods to identify the techniques used by...
According to a team of archaeologists led by Dr Nicholas Conard from Tübingen University, the transition from foraging to farming took place at roughly...
Using DNA and RNA sequencing, an international team of researchers has revealed a surprising variety of life forms living in the subglacial Lake Vostok.
Radar...
Astronomers, led by Dr Nicolas Bouche from the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology in Toulouse, France, have spotted a distant galaxy hungrily...
An international team of scientists reporting in the journal Nature has discovered a biochemical pathway that links nail growth to fingertip regeneration.
Digit...
Our Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy had a close encounter around 10 billion years ago, according to European astronomers led by Dr Hongsheng...
Dr Iannis Dandouras from the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology in Toulouse, France, has found the first conclusive proof of the existence...
A genetic analysis of the Vietnamese white toothed shrew fauna, reported in the open access journal ZooKeys, has revealed a new species in the genus Crocidura,...
The International Astronomical Union announced yesterday that the names Kerberos and Styx have officially been recognized for the fourth and fifth moons...
Two proteins called TAS1R3 and GNAT3, which have been previously known to be involved in oral taste detection, also play a crucial role in sperm development,...
